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UNITED STATES PATENT EIGE.

HENRY F. DUNN, OF ELVVOOD, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO DUNN MANUFAC- TURINGCOMPANY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

MEANS FOR SEVERING AND VENDING VARIABLE PORTIONS 0F INTEGRAL BODIES OFDIFFERENT VALUES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed October 8,1904. Serial No. 227,758.

1'0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. DUNN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Elwood, Madison county, Indiana, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Means for Severing and Vending Variable Portionsof Integral Bodies of Different Values, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart thereof, and in which drawings like characters of referenceindicate the same parts.

My invention relates to new and useful means for severing and vendingvariable portions of integral bodies'of different values, wherebyarticles, including cheese at whatever price per pound or other unit,may be vended in portions severed according to their money value.

In the accomplishment of this invention I have greatly simplified themechanism of the apparatus as well as the mode of adjusting or settingthe apparatus for different articles at different rates per pound orother unit.

My present invention consists in first ascertaining the value of thecheese or the sum desired to be realized from the sale of an articleinportions and providing the apparatus with a single row of charactersindicating the total possible values of a cheese or such other articledesired to be sold in pieces. A designator is then set to the characterin such row of indications representing such ascertained value of thecheese or sum to be realized from its sale, whereupon the movement ofsaid cheesecarrier is so limited that such movement will measure off adefinite moneys worth of said cheese or other article, which measuredportion may then be severed. Thus it will be seen that my inventiondispenses with the necessity for dealing with such incidental matters asweights and prices per pound and presents only the simple and ultimateresultto wit, a cheese or other article is to be sold for so much money,and the apparatus is set to out said cheese or article into portionsthat will realize said sum of money.

My invention consists in the means, mechanism, combinations, andarrangements of the various parts and means, all as will be hereinaftermore fully described, and briefed in each of the appended claims.

I have devised many different forms of apparatus, all embodying theprinciple or substance of my said invention; but for the purpose ofclearly and concisely illustrating and describing the same I haveembodied said invention in the forms of .apparatus shown in thedrawings, although I do not'd esire to limit myself to the details ofconstruction or arrangement of the parts specifically shown; but in itsproper aspect my invention contemplates its being embodied in any formof apparatus performing the principles of my invention, however widelysuch forms may differ in construction and details.

Figure 1. is a perspective view of a cheesecutter embodying theinvention as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a simple form ofthe machine for operating the cheese-table. Fig. 3 is a perspective viewof more elaborate mechanism for operating the cheese-table. Fig. 1 is aplan view of such mechanism.

In the drawings, 10 represents the cheese support or carrier, providedwith a plurality of notches or teeth 11 upon its periphery and adaptedto be engaged by one or more pawls 12, upon an arm 13, fulcrumedconcentric with said carrier 10. The carrier and arm 13 are revolublysupported by a base 1A, provided with uprights 15, between which extendsa knife-carrying frame 16, having knife 17 secured thereto and adaptedto sever portions of the cheese or other article upon the carrier 10.Upon said base 14 are one or more retaining-pawls 18, engaging with saidteeth 11, for retaining the carrier 10 in such positions as it may bemoved to by the pawl or pawls 12 upon arm 13. Secured to base 14 is alongitudinal bearing plate or bar 20, provided with a single row ofindications representing the total prices or the total money valuedesired to be realized from the sale of a cheese or other article to besold in portions. Upon said plate 20 is a stop block or member 21,provided with a set-screw 22, adapted to secure said block or member 21at any position upon said bar 20, said block or member 21 being set tothe character upon said bar 20 representing the value of the cheese orthe money to be realized from its sale, whereby each movement of lever13 throughout the space limited upon one side by the contact of lever 13with said block or member 21 and upon the other side by a projection orfixed stop 23 of plate 20 will drive the carrier 10 to measure apredetermined moneys worth of said cheese, which may be either l orvariable fulcrum 42 to different distances five, ten, fifteen, twenty,twenty-five cents or any other sum of money previously determined uponand provided for by the spacing of the graduations upon bar 20. Thetotalvalue graduations on this scale bar consist of marks which aredesignated by figures indicating such total values arranged inversely asto their respective distances from the fixed stop, so that the highestfigure will be nearest the fixed stop, and such distances not onlycorrespond to aliquot parts, respectively, of such total values, butalso to aliquot parts or sector portions of the carrier.

The foregoing is believed to embody my invention in the simplest form tome now known, and it renders obvious the simplicity and directness ofmanipulation accomplishable by my invention.

In Figs. 3 and 4, illustrating my invention as applied to means forvarying the ratio of movement for different cheeses, the lowermember 34of the cheese-carrier is revolubly mounted in guides 7), projecting fromthe base 10 and also revolubly mounted in a shouldered portion of acentral pin 31 is an arm 82, which extends over the scale 50. A lever 40is provided at its outer end with one or more pawls 17, engagingserrations or teeth on the periphery of the circular member 34 and isdesigned to effect rotation of said member. The base 10 is provided withone or more pawls 18, engaging said serrations 0r teeth in order toprevent retrograde movement of this member, to which the cheesecarriertable is designed to be attached. The operating-lever 40 is providedwith a variable fulcrum by means of its slot engagement with afulcrum-pin 42, carried by an arm 43, pivoted by its outer end to thebase at 44 and connected to the arm 32 by a link 45. The scale 50,secured to the peripheral portion of the base, is provided with a singlerow of indications indicating the total value of a cheese or article orthe sum of money desired to be realized from its sale in portions. Thelever 32 is provided with a clamp-screw 52 for clamping said lever atdifferent positions throughout the extent of the scale-plate 50. Theouter end of lever 40 extends between the base and a raised scale-plate39, which is provided with a plurality of graduations indicating themoneys worth in cents or fractions thereof within the range of the valueof the piece of cheese or other article to be severed.

In the operation of my invention as embodied in Figs. 3 and 4 of thedrawings lever 32 is set and clamped at a character on said scale-plate5O representing the total value of the cheese or article to be sold inpieces or the total money value desired to be realized from the sale ofsuch article in pieces. Such adjustment of lever 32 through theinstrumentality of link 45 and lever 43 moves pin in the length of lever40, whereupon the cheese-carrier may be moved to measure off any numberof cents worth of cheese or any other article in one or more operationsof lever 40, the number of cents worth so measured ofi' being indicatedby money value characters upon said plate 39, designated by aspringpressed indicator-slide 41, slidably mounted in an upwardprojection 'of said lever 40 and adapted to engage in one or morenotches in the edge of said plate 39, which notches each represent adifferent money value, whether one, five, ten, or other value beingpurely an arbitrary matter. the said notches and graduations on saidplate 39 corresponding each with the other. Y

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. Means for vending an article in portions, including means wherebyportions may be severed, a carrier for said article, means for movingsaid carrier, a scale-bar having a row of inverse total-valuegraduations, and means adjustably engaging said scale-bar for limitingthe motion of such carrier-moving means, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of acutting mechanism, a carrier for the article tobe cut in portions, means for moving said carrier, a scale-bar having afixed stop and inverse total-value grad uations indicating sums of moneyto be realized from the sale of such articles and governing the size ofsaid portions in accordancewith the total value, and means in adjustableengagement with said scale-bar for limiting the motion of the means formoving said carrier, substantially as specified.

3. Thecombination of a cutting means. a carrier for a substance-to becut, means for relatively moving said cutting means and said carrier, ascale-bar inversely graduated to indicate the total prices to berealized from the sale of such substances, and means adjustably engagingsaid scale-bar for limiting the extent of such relative movement at eachoperation of said means for relatively moving said cutting means andsaid carrier, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of a cutting means, a rotary carrier for substancesto be cut, means for relatively moving said cutting means and saidcarrier, a scale-bar having inversely-arranged graduations indicating aplurality of total values of such substances, and a stop adjustablyengaging said scale-bar to limit the extent of such relative movement,whereby when said stop is set to the value on said scale-barrepresenting the total value of said substance, such moving means willmove said carrier so that pieces of constant value may be cut fromcheeses of diflerent total values.

5. The combination of a cutting means, a carrier, means for moving saidcarrier, ascale- 7. In a cheese-cutter, the combination of a base-frame,a scale-bar carried by said frame, and inversely graduated in totalvalues of different cheeses, a rotary table on said baseframe, atable-rotating lever having movement over said scale, and an adjustablestop engaging said scale-bar for limiting the movement of said lever,substantially as specified.

8. In a cheese-cutter, the combination of a movable carrier forsubstances of different values, a reciprocating operating-lever for saidcarrier, a scale-bar inversely graduated in independent distances from acommon point marked as dilferent total values, a fixed stop at saidpoint, and an adjustable stop on said scale-bar, substantially asspecified.

9. In a cheese-cutter, the combination of a rotary carrier forsubstances of different values, a reciprocating operating-lever formoving said carrier, a scale-bar marked at difierent distances from acommon point representing independent aliquot parts of said carrier andinversely graduated as total values, a fixed stop at said common point,and an adjustable stop on said scale-bar, whereby pieces of constantvalue Will be cut from the cheeses of different values substantially asspecified.

10. In acheese-cutte-r, the combination With a base-frame, a rotarycarrier thereon for cheeses of different values, a reciprocatingopcrating-lever for said carrier, a scale-bar on said base-frame, afixed stop on said scale-bar, total-value graduations inversely arrangedat distances directly increasing from said fixed stop, and an adjustablestop engaging said scale-bar to limit the movement of saidoperating-lever, whereby pieces of constant value Will be cut fromcheeses of different values substantially as specified.

11. In a cheese-cutter, having a rotary carrier, and a reciprocatingoperating-lever therefor, a scale-bar having independent distancesmarked from a common stop measuring aliquot parts of said carrier andinversely graduated to mark different total values of cheeses, wherebypieces of constant value Will be cut from cheeses of different values,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, this17th day of February,

HENRY F. DUNN.

Witnesses:

ED W. LoUIso, FRANK P. DUNN.

